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Everything that was ever to happen to me in the future had its germ or impulse in the conditions of my life on Dover Street. My fr ...
One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children, used to cou ...
Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
The drinking and fighting of the Heroic Age have retreated to the slums.
Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted ...
Once the visitor was told rather repetitively that this city was the melting pot; never before in history had so many people of su ...
At no time in history ... have the people who are not fit for society had such a glorious opportunity to pretend that society is n ...
We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outf ...
Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than to submit to ...
But look what we have built ... low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopeles ...
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